Samuele Jenkins’ and Jessica Ivey’s cases raise complex questions of parental culpability and how his checkered arrest record could influence the severity of charges.
The kids walked across a major street, not at an intersection. That was my first thought too (that, and wondering why they’d charge the parents instead of the driver)
America is uniquely unwalkable though, you’re not wrong. I think the only case for charging the parents being at all valid is if they already have meaningful evidence that parents were negligent in teaching the kids how to walk home safely, which seems extremely difficult to find evidence for, save for maybe interviews with the other kids, including the one who was walking with the boy who died.
The kids walked across a major street, not at an intersection. That was my first thought too (that, and wondering why they’d charge the parents instead of the driver)
America is uniquely unwalkable though, you’re not wrong. I think the only case for charging the parents being at all valid is if they already have meaningful evidence that parents were negligent in teaching the kids how to walk home safely, which seems extremely difficult to find evidence for, save for maybe interviews with the other kids, including the one who was walking with the boy who died.
This whole situation is frankly gut-wrenching